Which is ironic given the fact that scraping was likely against the ToS for many of the sites which ended up in OpenAI's training corpus.

But didn’t X do that with their ML model Grok?

Burning bridges and getting sued isn't uncharted territory for Elon Musk.

What's good for the goose...

It will be interesting if the same court cases proving their use of everyone else's data make it fair use to use their machine output as training data. They're definitely in their rights to ban whomever but who knows if they have recourse beyond that?

If you're not selling/ putting your model out there as a generic competitor to OpenAi then you're not competing with them

That's a moving target :)